galenrox said:
Yeah, I've decided if there is a draft, and I'm drafted, I'll go, just on principle, but I also view it as odd that someone would find it ok to send people forcably to a war that they don't support. I mean, christ, I'm a pacifist, so it would be odd to send me there. I don't think that's really fair to send those who don't support the military action.
It has nothing to do with your personal "support" of the "military action." It has to do with you being born into the greatest country in the world, having all the rights, and opportunities you have, and fighting for what your country has deemed a threat to those rights and freedoms in the world, whether you agree with the deeming or not.
I suggest you read up on Alvin York, a staunch pacifist, drafted in WWI, who became the most decorated hero of the war.
galenrox said:
In my youth, I admittedly used several controlled substances... some on a regular basis. Despite claims to the contrary, drugs ruin lives. They ruin the lives of the users, and those around the users. Even Pot. I knew several pot smokers that spent their days taking bong hits, watching cartoons and sleeping. They become addicted, maybe not physically, but psychologically. They develope an attachment to a high state of mind. They only work hard enough for drug money, and many times commit illegal acts to get that. These same people will become a dredge on society, living off the advantage taken from government 'entitlement' programs, and private goodwill. They ruin families. Drug using teens are more likely to commit suicide, have children out of wedlock, and create drama that tears at the very fabric that holds their family together. They endanger lives. Have you ever seen someone on acid, so wacked out of their gord that they play in a busy street? Yes i believe pot is a "gateway drug". I was told pot was no big deal, that it wouldn't hurt me at all. During one of my highs, I was told to try another substance, and another, until I pretty much had done everythign put in fron of me including, shrooms, acid, coke, X, whipits, opium, aderol, and a few other substances.
Yes, I have met socially functioning potheads and drug users. I believe those to be exceptions to the rule.
galenrox said:
What about the right to privacy? The surpreme court has upheld on numerous occasions that there is a right to privacy, wouldn't that impune that right some?
Show me where it says 'right to privacy' in the constitution. A national ID card would in no way impune on any 'privacy'. I don't believe you should be able to hide your identity to government officials and law enforcement.
When a person's sex life spreads a disease which may endanger the life of others, knowingly or not, that should be illegal regardless of how it spread in their bedroom.
galenrox said:
Well then I can't possibly understand how you support drug prohibition and the draft, since both are extremely anti-capitalist.
I don't believe that to be true in the least.
galenrox said:
Drug prohibition is creating a false shortage of something where there is steady demand, and using governmental intervention to create extra profit for the drug lords, and so basically, economically speaking, drug prohibition is taking your tax dollars and shoving them right into the pockets of the gang bangers and drug lords, so congratulations, well spent!
way to try to combine an economics lesson with your support for drugs, and while the illegality may create higher street prices for the substances.. that has nothing to do with the fact that the substances should still be illegal.
galenrox said:
And the draft is way to ignore the capitalist evaluation of the public support for the war. The laws of economics show that people's actions speak louder than words, and if there aren't enough people willing to voluntarily join the army for whatever reason, patriotism, benefits, or whatever, that just shows that there isn't enough real public support of that war.
I believe you're confusing capitalism and democracy. People have the opportunity to elect political leaders that best represent their worldviews. If those political leaders deem it necessary to go to war, then their worldview obviously already represents a majority.
The public has the opportunity to show whether or not they support the actions of the politicians every election cycle.